Author Topic: New Player Experience  (Read 27945 times)

JeVondair

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Re: New Player Experience
« Topic Start: July 25, 2017, 05:37:42 PM »
Indeed, many people, myself included, have made it a point to contact every newbie, whether IC or OOC or both, for at least some period of time. It might help, but to me, it didn't really feel like it had much of an effect on retention.


I agree. Xavax was a great experiment. Every single new person that arrived was engaged with an IC welcome message. Most of them did not write back. Since that realm started, we gained and lost something like 60 accounts. I wish now that I had been tracking that data. It often felt like there was simply nothing we could do. Bm is simply niche that way.


I've played games that, instead of dragging newbies through tutorials, instead utilizes a simple rewards program to incentivize new players into discovering aspects of the game. Perhaps we could discuss something similar? Like "Congratulations for sending your first RP. Here's 100 gold to your family coffers" or something.
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